Kirkpatrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Studer v. State · Cook v. State · Teal v. State · Thomason v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look to the indictment as a whole, not just to its specific formal requisites.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte McDonald
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.